What I'm Reading This Week (2024/12.08-12.14)
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Money votes are more convincing than voice votes.
No normal player would expect Astro Bot to be TGE’s Game of the Year 2024, but looking at the odds, from the very beginning, this was the only answer in the eyes of money.
This isn’t suitable for supporting the saying “You may not believe in the morality of money, but you can’t ignore its vision.” This result could be the outcome of a political compromise, but it’s more likely that there is an insider who knows the answer.
Next Friday is the Triple Witching Day, remember to exit at the peak.
What I Am Reading
This week, I read the biography Why Fish Don’t Exist about David Starr Jordan, the founding president of Stanford University and a taxonomist. It’s an ordinary story, with some allegorical undertones.
In taxonomy, fish as a whole do not exist, and David Starr Jordan’s lifelong work in classifying fish is therefore difficult to evaluate.
The author suggests that David Starr Jordan may have murdered Stanford’s benefactor to continue his research, leading to a deeper question: Many things humans do may be inherently meaningless, but how much can a person sacrifice in their lifetime for their true self?
After all, personal emotions and beliefs give meaning to these actions. In the end, individuals are responsible for themselves and assign meaning to their own lives.
1. PyGWalker
- Data analysis and visualization tool in Jupyter Notebook environment
- Generates an interactive graphical interface with just one command.
- Visualize, clean, and annotate data through drag-and-drop or natural language.
2. Central Economic Work Conference: Addressing Insufficient Domestic Demand and Economic Pressure, Promoting Consumption and Social Welfare Reforms
- The Central Economic Work Conference was held from December 11 to 12, highlighting insufficient domestic demand, business operational difficulties, employment and income pressure, and numerous risks.
- Proposes increasing the fiscal deficit rate, expanding fiscal expenditure, appropriately lowering the reserve requirement ratio and interest rates, exploring the central bank’s macroprudential and financial stability functions, and innovating financial tools.
- Implements special actions to boost consumption, promote income growth and reduce burdens for low- and middle-income groups, and enhance consumption capacity, willingness, and levels.
- Increases pensions for retirees and raises the fiscal subsidy standard for residents’ health insurance.
- Conducts comprehensive rectification of “involutionary” competition, standardizing local government and business behavior.
- Expands pilot openings in telecom, healthcare, education, and other sectors.
- Strengthens urban village and dilapidated housing renovation efforts, releasing housing demand potential.
- Promotes the expansion of high-quality undergraduate education.
- Implements a strong healthcare foundation project.
- Formulates policies to promote fertility.
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